Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:39 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> At 08:55 AM 6/1/2006 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> >Content-Disposition: inline
> >
> >On Wednesday 31 May 2006 22:04, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> >> On 31/05/06 06:13, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> >> >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:50:50AM -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> >> >>>My take is different: "...the patient *almost* died, but it was the only
> >> >>> way to survive at all". In these days of suing the pants off anyone who
> >> >>> even resembles coming close to some odd patent that is hiding
> >> >>> somewhere, I think the only way to make Linux' survival safe is to
> >> >>> avoid all that non-open crap.
> >> >>
> >> >>Does this mean you won't be burning any DVDs on that Linux system of
> >> >> yours?
> >> >
> >> >Given that I have no DVD burner, that's an easy one... Are you telling me
> >> >that *all* DVD burners need binary-only proprietary stuff (aka "blob") to
> >> >work? A quick google doesn't seem to corroborate that (even Debian seems
> >> >to support burning DVDs), but maybe you know something I don't?
> >>
> >> No, we can restrict the discussion just to pseudo-open source stuff like
> >> libdvdcss which, last time I checked, is not available from any site in
> >> the USA because it's illegal there -- and it's probably illegal in more
> >> jurisdictions than just the USA.
> >
> >Exactly. And that's  your problem. Lawyers and (primarily though by no means 
> >exclusively) the US music and film industries in an unholy alliance with big 
> >computer corporations. Write to them, stop blaming the Linux developers for 
> >having to defend themselves from the anti-democratic intellectual property 
> >and software patent industry.  It used to  be there to protect writers and 
> >artists, but that has long since been replaced by protecting semi-monopoly 
> >revenue streams for profoundly unpleasant corporations. I would urge US 
> >readers to lobby their politicians.
> >
> >-- 
> >Fergus Wilde
> >Chetham's Library
> >Long Millgate
> >Manchester
> >M3 1SB
> >
> /snip/
> If you follow US news at all (many foreigners do, to their credit)
> you are aware that the politicions who make up the present administration
> are pretty much in the pockets of the semi-monopoly corporations, like,
> for example, Disney, and most of the record companies and Big Hollywood.
> 
> --doug

  Just 2 comments first American politics is not the subject of this
list, second the last three administrations in Washington can quite
correctly be accused of the above.


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